zxcvbob > wrote in
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> PENMART01 wrote:
>
>>>I'd like a front loader, but I don't know if I'm willing to spend
>>>the extra bucks.
>>>
>>>nancy
>>
>>
>> I remember front loaders from long ago (my grandmotehr had two, and a
>> mangle, she sold the kosher deli in Brooklyn and retired to run a
>> tourist home in the borscht belt, now they call them B & Bs - hoo-ha)
>> once you shut the door and began the cycle that was it, you couldn't
>> open it again to toss in those stinkin' towels you forgot about in
>> the upstairs terlit... I'm forever tossing something in while the
>> machine is still in the wash cycle. I still remember all those times
>> long ago when I washed clothes at the laundromat and the door on one
>> of the Bendix front loaders would pop open mid cycle, seemingly for
>> no reason at all... what a friggin' mess... but at least at the
>> laundromat the flood was squeegied down the floor drain... I don't
>> want to think about that with my brand new cherry floor. Unless
>> technology has changed drasticly I don't want a front loader. I
>> especially wouldn't pay more for one, I think they actually cost less
>> to manufacture than a top loader... in fact now that I recall the
>> Sears Roebuck displays from the 50s the automatic top loaders cost
>> more than front loaders, and every house wife wanted an automatic top
>> loader (the previous top loaders were manual, even had wringers).
>> Today's front loaders cost so much more... like they were just
>> invented... what rip off.
>>
>
> You can stop mine (Frigidaire, a.k.a. White-Westinghouse or Gibson or
> Electrolux) to toss in that leftover sock or whatever, you just push
> in the control/timer dial to stop it and it unlocks the door.
>
> Bob
>

My whirlpool is stopable too. And washes more clothes per load with less
water than a standard top load washer. The colthes come out damp not wet as
well so not as much drying is required.



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